Sentence examples for lay tracks from inspiring English sources

For example Hitachi makes trains but does not lay tracks, which MHI does.

On its southern flank China is renewing a push to lay tracks to mainland South-East Asia. South-East Asia

The Chinese are looking for reassurances from Thailand's government that it will do its bit, so that China does not lay tracks to Vientiane in vain.

The sick men were admitted to the post hospital, which was already crowded with soldiers and civilian laborers hired to lay tracks for the Union Pacific Railroad.

But South Korean officials now plan to help North Korea remove land mines and lay tracks across the Demilitarized Zone this summer.

The Mexican community here dates from the 1930's, when economic pioneers arrived from Mexico and Texas to work the area's tomato farms and lay tracks for the railroad.

Vengeful Apaches keep travellers awake at night, and Chinese coolies, working for the Southern Pacific Railroad, lay track across the mountains.

"She was pregnant out there in the middle of the fields, with boots and flannel, teaching contractors how to lay track," he said.

We rode through canyons of moss-covered rock left by railroad workers blasting through boulders to lay track in the mid-1800's.

Brian Taylor, a transport expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, worries that the "coolness factor" of high-speed rail can tempt planners to look for a place to lay track, rather than for problems that fast trains might solve.

With the development of the railroads, for example, companies like the New York Central and the Union Pacific needed to raise tens of millions of dollars from outside investors to lay track and buy rolling stock.